Ecological literacy : education and the transition to a postmodern world /
Orr, David W., 1944-
Ecological literacy : education and the transition to a postmodern world / David W. Orr. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 1992. - xiii, 210 p. ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The problem of sustainability--Two meanings of sustainability--A tale of two systems: sustainability in international perspective--Fragments of strategy--Ecological literacy--The liberal arts, the campus, and the biosphere: an alternative to Bloom's vision of education--A prerequisite to the great books of Allan Bloom: a syllabus for ecological literacy--Place and pedagogy--Education and sustainability: an approach--What is education for?--Is environmental education an oxymoron? Having failed to manage ourselves, we will now manage the planet? An opinion from the back forty--What good is a rigorous research agenda if you don't have a decent planet to put it on? (apologies to Thoreau)--Food alchemy and sustainable agriculture.
0791408736 (alk. paper) 0791408744 (pbk. : alk. paper)
90028767
Education--Aims and objectives.
Environmental education.
Human ecology.
LB41 / .O77 1992
375/.0083
Ecological literacy : education and the transition to a postmodern world / David W. Orr. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 1992. - xiii, 210 p. ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The problem of sustainability--Two meanings of sustainability--A tale of two systems: sustainability in international perspective--Fragments of strategy--Ecological literacy--The liberal arts, the campus, and the biosphere: an alternative to Bloom's vision of education--A prerequisite to the great books of Allan Bloom: a syllabus for ecological literacy--Place and pedagogy--Education and sustainability: an approach--What is education for?--Is environmental education an oxymoron? Having failed to manage ourselves, we will now manage the planet? An opinion from the back forty--What good is a rigorous research agenda if you don't have a decent planet to put it on? (apologies to Thoreau)--Food alchemy and sustainable agriculture.
0791408736 (alk. paper) 0791408744 (pbk. : alk. paper)
90028767
Education--Aims and objectives.
Environmental education.
Human ecology.
LB41 / .O77 1992
375/.0083